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The Crossing
10 minute read. The emigrants are huddled on the quayside, rain lashing in from the East. Some are heading across the Atlantic, others across the Irish Sea. The old Irish sounds more comforting, a home from home. Their eyes seek me out in the clouds of amniotic fluids. I am a regret or a promise. Time will tell. They beseech me to stay. How can I help? What can I do? Remember them, but is that enough? Mother is running, legs arched, arms swaying.
The legal pitfalls of using AI at work
Businesses are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up decision-making and other HR processes, such as recruitment, work allocation, management decisions and dismissals. The types of decision-making AI is performing in the workplace include: Profiling: using algorithms to categorise data and find correlations between data sets.
Creating an inclusive culture powered by technology
Diversity and inclusion is a key priority for all global businesses. Forward-thinking companies are actively hiring for cognitive diversity and embedding data driven strategies to turbo charge their D&I agenda. Disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are opening up new ways to derive novel insights and augment decision making for more diverse and inclusive workplaces. The digital age is no longer a 'thing'. It just is.
hyrbid working | flexible working | home working | Acas
Arguably, hybrid working helps with all these challenges. It allows for a more phased return to the workplace for many. It allows us to finally accept that people can be just as productive, if not more so, when working more flexibly. And hybrid working also shows, perhaps, that personal choice and job autonomy matter more than they once did.
Can we afford conflict in the workplace?
I’d like to start with a provocation: we can’t have fair, inclusive workplaces without some conflict. Why we need conflict Yes, it seems the ultimate workplace paradox, but within the statement is more than a grain of truth. Many individuals and groups have to struggle to be heard and promote fairness at work in various forms, whether it’s relating to racial or gender equality or fighting stigma around mental health.
Acas: mental health 'enlightenment' a pandemic silver lining
Fujitsu has developed some 'talking tips' to help managers open up wellbeing conversations with staff Shutterstock To coincide with Time to Talk Day, Acas has published a policy paper showcasing how three organisations are building employee resilience and responding proactively to wellbeing challenges. Adrian Wakeling looks at some of the key take aways. What do Amnesty International, Fujitsu and the MoD’s Defence Intelligence have in common?
Is it time to get rid of all workplace policies and procedures?
August 17, 2020 by Adrian Wakeling • Comment, HR After twenty-five years of telling employers that their first response to any workplace problem should be ‘draw up a policy’, it pains me to even suggest this; but what if we abolished all workplace policies and procedures? Yes, you heard me correctly – no policies for discipline and grievances, for handling sickness absence, menopause, mental health, flexible working, redundancies, emails, dress codes, discrimination etcetera.
Blurring of work and home life is the tip of the tech iceberg
Nurses said iPads allowed them to spend more time with patients, but took them away from meetings with colleagues. Image: Shutterstock. New technology is often hailed as the UK’s economic saviour. But have we appreciated AI’s potential for radically altering workplace relationships and impacting our mental health, asks Acas’s Adrian Wakeling. The US comedian Carrie Snow once said new technology “brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other”.
Does hi-tech cause high stress?
One of the many paradoxes of modern working life is that what helps us also potentially hurts us. Technology allows us to work more flexibly and this often suits modern expectations for family and caring commitments. But technology also means that we are ‘always on’ and can rarely escape the work emails and nagging feelings of guilt.
Acas research highlights pros and cons of flexible working
There are hidden benefits and drawbacks to flexible working arrangements, new research from employment adviser Acas finds. Adrian Wakeling, senior policy adviser, looks at the key messages for employers. In many workplace settings, it is hard to distinguish idle chit-chat from meaningful dialogue. We know how it goes – meetings are where everyone has their say, but many of the best ideas and exchanges happen in the corridor just afterwards.
Leaders must change the culture on mental health at work
Momentum is growing to make employers’ take responsibility to tackle the problem of mental health at work, not least from the Government. Adrian Wakeling, senior policy adviser at work experts Acas, shares employers’ tips on how to manage the issue, gleaned from recent workshops. More than 100,000 of the one million calls to the helpline of workplace experts Acas concern “absence, sickness and stress”, and a recent analysis of some of these calls is revealing.
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